Extra Wax
{{short description|2019 album by KT Tunstall}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Extra Wax
| type = EP
| artist = KT Tunstall
| cover = Extra Wax.album.jpg|border=yes
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2019|4|13|df=yes}}
| recorded = 2017–2018
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 8:55
| label = Rostrum
| producer =
| prev_title = Live at the Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow 2019
| prev_year = 2019
| next_title = Nut
| next_year = 2022
| misc =
}}
Extra Wax (Wax stylised in all caps) is a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl EP by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall as a supplement to her sixth studio album, WAX. It was released on 13 April 2019.{{cite web |url=https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/10848|title=Specialrelease |date=1 March 2019 |accessdate=1 March 2019}} The record contains two new non-album tracks, "John the Conqueror" and "Throw Down Boy", and a cover of Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun".
Background
On March 1, 2019, Tunstall announced on Instagram a special version of her latest album, WAX, which was first released on 5 October 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BueSOLpHaSe/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/kttunstall/1990108224755180702 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |url-access=registration|title=KT Tunstall's Instagram post 01-03 |work=Instagram |date=1 March 2019 |accessdate=1 March 2019 |author=Tunstall, KT}}{{cbignore}} This special release included new tracks, but it was limited to only 1,000 copies. The EP was released in conjunction with the independent record store event Record Store Day on 13 April 2019.
Both "Throw Down Boy" and "John the Conqueror" had been bonus tracks that were originally only available for purchase in Scotland. "John the Conqueror" was written during the Tiger Suit sessions.{{cite web |title=Official album titled for album #3 - Tiger Suit |url=http://forums.kttunstall.com/viewtopic.php?p=1312931#p1312931 |accessdate=1 July 2020 |archive-date=2 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702210136/http://forums.kttunstall.com/viewtopic.php?p=1312931#p1312931 |url-status=dead }} The "Blister in the Sun" cover is new.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Producer(s)
| title1 = John the Conqueror
| writer1 = {{hlist|Tunstall|Greg Kurstin}}{{cite web |title=KT Tunstall - Extra Wax (2019, Grey, Vinyl) |url=https://es.juno.co.uk/products/kt-tunstall-extra-wax-record-store-day/724639-01/ |website=Discogs |accessdate=26 October 2019}}
| extra1 = {{hlist|Nick McCarthy|Sebastian Kellig}}
| length1 = 2:51
| title2 = Throw Down Boy
| writer2 = {{hlist|Tunstall|McCarthy|Kellig}}
| extra2 = {{hlist|McCarthy|Kellig}}
| length2 = 3:07
| title3 = Blister in the Sun
| writer3 = Gordon Gano
| length3 = 2:46
}}
References
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